windows 98 recovery

[streater]

ran windows recovery on an HPfrom recovery disk
got msg. windows not loaded completely, himem.sys not in windows directory. Went into DOS
mode and looked in the directory of windows, and
there it was!! Is this a registryproblem or wha?
the file is definately there??t

[reghakr]

Why was the recovery neccessary?

reghakr

[streater]

windows froze up and nothing I could do would
work. as a last resort I tried to reload windows98
from the recovery disk

[reghakr]

Windows froze...Your kidding! What were you doing when Windows froze?

It may be caused by programs that you had running at startup, such as Anti-virus, firewall, CD-RW, printer, Iomega or other utilities.

Re-loading Windows is a big mistake if you've upgraded Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, and/or DirectX. You have essentially downgraded all those components on your machine.

Could also be bad RAM chips. If your configuration allows it, remove one chip and try again. If that doesn't help:

Insert the command DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:ON into your Config.sys file. Watch your screen for a
message HIMEM has detected unreliable memory at address xx:xxxxxx, which will certainly indicate that there's a memory problem.

reghakr